EP1135812A1 - Fuel cell with improved sealing between individual membrane assemblies and plate assemblies - Google Patents
Fuel cell with improved sealing between individual membrane assemblies and plate assembliesInfo
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- EP1135812A1 EP1135812A1 EP99955100A EP99955100A EP1135812A1 EP 1135812 A1 EP1135812 A1 EP 1135812A1 EP 99955100 A EP99955100 A EP 99955100A EP 99955100 A EP99955100 A EP 99955100A EP 1135812 A1 EP1135812 A1 EP 1135812A1
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- fuel cell
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- H01M8/00—Fuel cells; Manufacture thereof
- H01M8/02—Details
- H01M8/0202—Collectors; Separators, e.g. bipolar separators; Interconnectors
- H01M8/0267—Collectors; Separators, e.g. bipolar separators; Interconnectors having heating or cooling means, e.g. heaters or coolant flow channels
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- H01M8/24—Grouping of fuel cells, e.g. stacking of fuel cells
- H01M8/241—Grouping of fuel cells, e.g. stacking of fuel cells with solid or matrix-supported electrolytes
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- H01M8/0202—Collectors; Separators, e.g. bipolar separators; Interconnectors
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Definitions
- TECHNICAL FIELD This invention relates to electrochemical fuel cells, and deals more particularly with the sealing provided between a coolant flow-field plate and an adjacent component of the fuel cell, particularly with the membrane electrode assembly and/or an associated water separator plate.
- Peripheral sealing of prior art membrane and plate assemblies generally requires impregnating the outside perimeter of each component with a chemical, such as SARTOMER GRADE 2108 from SARTOMER CO., INC., that requires curing in the absence of oxygen.
- a chemical such as SARTOMER GRADE 2108 from SARTOMER CO., INC.
- Such chemicals are hydrophobic in the cured state so as to suffer from continuous contact with the cooling fluid currently favored, namely water as now used in fuel cells generally.
- the edges of water transport plates are impregnated with a resin, which when polymerized create an edge seal that prevents leakage of the gaseous reactants, and also serves to prevent infiltration of these reactants into the liquid coolant.
- edges of the porous catalyst support plates are impregnated to create edge seals also.
- One commonly used compound for such impregnation is a silicone rubber.
- the silicone rubber although resulting in an effective seal within the catalyst support plate does not exhibit good adhesion with the proton exchange membrane (PEM). This poor adhesion tends to permit reactant leakage at the interface between these components and allows the PEM to shrink away from the edge of the catalyst support plate, particularly if the water content of the proton exchange membrane is reduced due to the conditions of the PEM operating fuel cell.
- the shrinkage of the proton exchange membrane can result in an electrical short between the anode catalyst support plate and the cathode catalyst support plate. Such a short will of course reduce the efficiency of the fuel cell and may cause localized overheating.
- the seal configuration in a typical PEM cell generally employs use of an acrylic tape to bond the periphery of the water transport plates to the periphery of the catalyst support plates in order to create an effective seal between these components.
- acrylic tape is also used to bond the two halves of the water transport plate to each other.
- Such seal configurations exhibit marginal performance due to hydrophobicity of the materials that are used and due to poor adhesion with the PEM. Further, such seals are expensive to manufacture as a result of the number of components and process steps required in their fabrication and assembly.
- One object of the present invention is to provide a singe peripheral sealant coating that adheres to the porous graphite water transport plates and the porous graphite catalyst support plates, and which also adheres to the exchange membrane itself .
- An advantage of the present invention can be attributed to the fact that this single adhesive/sealant that is used to coat the exterior edges and to impregnate the exterior edges of these components provides a convenient way of achieving desired functions of both sealing and of adhesion, and also obviates the disadvantages created by use of the materials described above for achieving the sealing and adhesion functions.
- a fuel cell stack wherein the individual cells in the stack include a membrane electrode assembly (MEA) wherein opposed catalyst layers are provided on opposite sides of the proton exchange membrane (PEM), and wherein opposed anode and cathode support plates, typically of porous graphite, are provided on opposite sides of this catalyst, and wherein said catalyst support plates contain a central area adjacent to the catalyst and peripheral areas to be sealed including a first seating surface.
- MEA membrane electrode assembly
- PEM proton exchange membrane
- opposed anode and cathode support plates typically of porous graphite
- a sealant coating preferably in the form of a fluoroelastomer is provided between these first and second seating surfaces, and serves to adhere and to bond the catalyst support plate to the flow-field plate.
- the catalyst support plate provided adjacent to the catalyst layer and the membrane itself presents -some problem in prior art fuel cell configurations, but the same sealant coating material can also be provided around the edges of the membrane electrode assembly and associated water transport plate or plates to provide a structure that prevents leakage of reactants and coolant.
- FIG. 1 is an exploded side elevational view illustrating several of the components in a pair of side-by-side fuel cells in a typical fuel cell stack of the type adapted to take advantage of the present invention
- FIG. 2 is a view of a portion of the fuel cell of Fig. 1 showing the sealant coating provided between peripheral surfaces of the indicated components of the fuel cell, and also showing the same sealant coating provided at the outer edge of the fuel cell stack.
- FIG. 3 is a view similar to FIG 2 but showing the effect of the porous catalyst support plate and water transport plate assemblies for a cell with two water transport plates.
- Fig. 1 shows, in exploded relationship, the various components of a typical fuel cell which are provided in repeating fashion in a typical fuel cell stack.
- Two membrane electrode assemblies are indicated at MEA in Fig. 1 , and interposed therebetween is provided a water transport plate WTP and a separator plate SP.
- Each membrane electrode assembly comprises a solid polymer ion exchange membrane 10 interposed between an anode 12 and a cathode 14.
- the anode and cathode will be referred to hereinafter as electrodes, and each contains a catalyst layer, such as indicated generally at 16 in Fig. 1 and a catalyst support plate.
- the catalyst layer is provided on the side of the electrode adjacent to the membrane 10, and renders these electrodes electrochemically active.
- a flow-field plate, or water transport plate WTP contains channels 18 on the side facing the membrane electrode assembly MEA through which channels 18 an oxidant usually in the form of oxygen or air flows.
- This flow- field plate WTP contains other channels 20 on the side facing away from the membrane electrode assembly MEA through which channels 20 a coolant fluid in the form of water flows for purposes of withdrawing heat from the electrochemical reaction provided in the fuel cell.
- a separator plate SP is provided adjacent to the water transport plate WTP for closing these channels and to define, on its opposite side adjacent the next membrane electrode assembly, suitable channels, such as shown at 22, for the flow of fuel, usually in the form of a gas containing hydrogen, adjacent the anode 12.
- the seal between these various components namely the membrane electrode assembly, the water transport plate, and the separator plate SP, comprise interfacial peripheral gaskets of silicone coated glass fabric preferably in the form of a silicone pressure sensitive adhesive applied to one side of each of these components.
- These silicone gaskets do provide acceptable sealing, but require relatively high sealing loads, and must, of necessity, be cut out of large sheets, creating a great deal of waste.
- Other approaches to this problem have taken the form of an edge seal formed by impregnating the outside perimeter of these components with a resin, such as SARTOMER. Unfortunately this resin produces marginal results because such resins are typically hydrophobic in the cured state and therefore suffer from a reduction in the water bubble pressure at the edge seal interface. After impregnation with water, poor wetting of the chemical coated components generally occurs resulting in local leakage.
- the preferred form of electrode support plate is generally in sheet form, or paper form, and is coated with the catalyst and requires sealing along its peripheral edges with a silicone rubber, such as SYLGARD 170.
- a silicone rubber such as SYLGARD 170.
- an improved adhesive/sealant 30 is provided both on the outer edges of the cell components and between the membrane electrode assembly and the water transport plate, as best shown in Fig. 2.
- the preferred material for such sealant is a fluoroelastomer, such as FLUOROLAST grade SB or WB amnufactured by Fluorolast, a division of Laureen.
- FIG. 3 The preferred embodiment of the invention is shown in FIG. 3 where the periphery of the electrode support plate is impregnated with the Flourolast elastomer.
- FIG. 3 also shows the alternative cell configuration with back to back water transport plates (WTP) that eliminates the separator plate.
- WTP back to back water transport plates
- the periphery of the electrode support plate is pervious, and impregnated with the Flourolast elastomer to create an edge seal and the sealing surface of each WTP is coated with Flourolast.
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